Jen is a finance professional with the uncommon ability to weave in operational and talent management expertise. She is able to take a high-level approach to your business organization, helping all parts of the whole to work together in tandem to maximize your outcomes.

In addition to her responsibilities as executive assistant, she maintained the financial records of a start-up marketing company that had the same ownership, demonstrating her abilities which resulted in her promotion to American Pest’s Director of Finance in 2011. At that time, the company was approximately $10m in revenue. In her role, she professionalized the finance function of the company by making strategic hires, creating monthly and annual processes and checklists, implementing internal controls to safeguard the business, and providing financial review and analysis to identify profitability opportunities in various areas of the business.

In 2016, American Pest was $13m in revenue and was acquired by Anticimex, a private-equity owned organization headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Anticimex was entering the United States market for the first time, and American Pest began a period of rapid expansion, tripling in revenue in 3 years and quadrupling in 5 years. During this time, Jen moved into the #2 position at the organization and led the company’s acquisition of 15 companies, totaling over $40m in acquired revenue with deals ranging from $100k to $8 million in revenue.